Join us online for a special AuScope seminar to discuss WorldFAIR+ and the Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework (CDIF)
Fri, 10 Oct 2025 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM AEDT / 00:00-01:00 UTC
Register here: https://bit.ly/AuScope-
Speakers: Rebecca Farrington, AuScope; Simon Hodson, CODATA; Steve McEachern, UKDS; Lesley Wyborn, ANU
About this event
AuScope is delighted to welcome Dr Simon Hodson to Australia and host this special seminar in the lead-up to this year’s International Data Week in Brisbane.
Join us online for an exciting AuScope Seminar featuring Dr Simon Hodson, the Executive Director of CODATA. It’s an excellent opportunity to explore the latest globally leading developments in WorldFAIR+ and the Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework (CDIF) — two key initiatives in CODATA’s Making Data Work for Cross-Domain Grand Challenge.
About CODATA
The mission of CODATA is to “Connect data and people to advance science and improve our world”.
As the ‘Committee on Data of the International Science Council (ISC)’, CODATA supports the ISC’s mission of ‘advancing science as a global public good’ by promoting Open Science and FAIR data. CODATA convenes a global expert community and provides a forum for international consensus building and agreements around a range of data science and data policy issues, from the fundamental physical constants to cross-domain data specifications. CODATA’s membership includes national data committees, scientific academies, International Scientific Unions and other organisations.
About CODATA’s WorldFAIR+
CODATA is expanding and sustaining the vision and methodology of WorldFAIR through the WorldFAIR+ programme. The purpose is to provide practical guidance and technical recommendations to help ensure that the data required for interdisciplinary research are FAIR and have maximum utility.
About CODATA’s CDIF
The Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework (CDIF) is a set of practical, implementation-level principles designed to enhance data management practices within any community and reduce barriers to cross-domain data reuse. CDIF provides standards and methodologies for achieving various levels of interoperability, necessary for reusing data across diverse domains. It is built around five core profiles that address the essential functions for implementing cross-domain FAIR principles.
About AuScope
AuScope is Australia’s provider of research infrastructure to the national geoscience community working on fundamental geoscience questions and grand challenges — climate change, natural resources security and natural hazards. The Australian Government funds us via the Department of Education (NCRIS). You can find our team, tools, data, analytics and services at Geoscience Australia, CSIRO, state and territory geological surveys and universities across the Australian continent.
AuScope, in collaboration with OneGeochemistry, partnered with CODATA in the delivery of the Geochemistry work package in the original Horizon Europe Framework Programme WorldFAIR major project. As one of 11 domain-specific case studies advancing the implementation of the FAIR data principles, it was an action-packed two years that continues with our ongoing commitment to and collaboration in these critical CODATA initiatives, which are progressing FAIR and Open Science.
AuScope’s collaboration with CODATA continues through the ‘Modernising Earth Science Data for High Performance Computing’ project with our Cross-NCRIS partnership with the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI), and participation in the “FAIR Principles implementation for DDE” IUGS-funded project.
Agenda
10:00 – 10:05: Welcome, Introduction and Acknowledgement of Country (Tim Rawling).
10:05 – 10:20: Overview of the WorldFAIR Project (Simon Hodson).
10:20 – 10:27: Social Science in WorldFAIR – Data harmonisation (Steve McEachern, UK Data Service).
10-27 – 10:34: AuScope in WorldFAIR – OneGeochemistry and beyond (Rebecca Farrington, AuScope).
10:34 – 10:45: Simon Hodson: WorldFAIR Plus – outline and ‘your’ potential involvement.
10:45 – 10:58: Open Discussion: Moderator – Rebecca Farrington (AuScope).
10:58 Concluding remarks and Close (Tim Rawling, AuScope)